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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
8
The article extols country home decor, praising cotton hangings and chintzes over heavy silks. It notes Elizabethan and Nouveau influences, rich yet harmonious colors, and affordable taffetas in inexpensive chintzes, urging readers to refresh rooms with modern, stylish fabrics.
A guide to living room drapery featuring white satin and linen options with cretonne borders and silk flower trims. Describes curtain lengths sash versus floor, bobbinet nets with Renaissance braid, and heavy net borders. Includes lace, Phrygian patterns, and bedspread inspired designs in white cretonne with floral motifs.
The article surveys decor fabrics and window coverings for downstairs rooms, highlighting cretonne curtains, embroidered white swisses, India gauze portieres, and silk striped draperies. It notes unlined country Cretonne curtains, rod-mounted arrangements, and color themes using greens, purples, reds, and ecru. It also includes a brief home craft tale about a child’s needle and a science-backed shadow panorama activity using salt crystals.
Policeman Ferguson and his horse Wyck saved a girl on a frightened roan in Central Park. The rider was pulled from the runaway and the mare halted without injury after Ferguson sped to the scene and guided Wyck into action.
The article urges saving used salt and flour bags by washing and storing them for daily tasks. It praises their usefulness as dustcloths and polishing rags, noting new stock wears well and thrift-minded households can reuse bags to make simple cloths, even for clothing a family.
Sleeves on new blouses demand better ironing and a modified board. A board with one end smaller than the usual sleeve board helps with puff sleeves and frilled trims, proving invaluable for precise creasing and shaping.
A survey lists various inventors and the large incomes their ideas generated. Dancing Jimmy earned $75,000 yearly, John Gilpin $100,000, Plimpton $1,000,000, Harvey Kennedy $2,500,000, and an umbrella inventor millions. Other gains include sugar boiling patents, steel pens, color shading pens, elastic wooden balls, protective shoe plates, baby carriages, and curling irons.
A playful exchange reveals a speaker shrugging off a precise address by saying he lived in the Moset in a joking tone. The remark features a twinkle and a lighthearted misdirection about residence.
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